Ellie stormed into the room where Chuck lay on his bed, "Chuck, you're my brother and I love you, and I know you loved Jill but she is gone now. It's been 6 month since Jill had her accident, and you can't go on living like this."
Chuck frowned at his sister, "Ellie I can't do this without her, this company was our idea, we made it our own, me with the computers and her with the marketing. We made the worse moment of my life, when I got kicked out of Stanford and made it the best thing that ever happened to me."
"Chuck I know it's hard but Jill would want you to move on. She loved you, she could have left you, she had no reason to think you hadn't stolen the answers but she still stuck with you, I know you would be a mess if you didn't have her and would never be anywhere near as successful as you are now. But I also know that Jill wouldn't want you to ruin all that the two of you made, she would want you to go on without her."
Chuck nodded; a lot of what Ellie said was true, if it wasn't for Jill staying with him and helping him with the small startup computer company, he would definitely not be able to make a business. While he did the actual computer work and made the technologies, Jill did the business part of it and controlled the marketing and managing part of the company. It was made by both of them, both using their best talents to help the business become the multi-million dollar company it was now.
Chuck really just couldn't take it anymore, he finally broke down and just started crying, "Ellie, I loved her, she was my life and was going to be my wife, and I really don't think that I can do this without her."
Ellie ran over and hugged him, "Chuck just give it time I don't expect you to get over her immediately but you got to start trying. You have that interview with the LA Times and it may be a good step for you to start back up again."
Chuck sighed, "Ok sis if you really think that it will help me then I guess I will try."
"That's great I'll call the paper and tell them that you will do the interview. I got to go and meet Devon, were going out for dinner tonight."
Have fun, I'll prey there are no 30 car pileups to pull you too lovebirds away from your dinner." Laughing, Ellie walked away.
Later that night as Chuck lay in his room tinkering with one of his latest computer designs. It was supposed to be done a while ago but with Jill's accident he had stopped a lot of his work but after Ellie's talk he has decide to try and start working on a few of the projects again. As he tries to get the computer chip to work he sees his computer has a new email. Looking at the incoming number he sees that it is Bryce Larkin. Why in the world would he email me thought Chuck as he clicked on it.
All of the sudden the computer flashes a message with a line from the old computer game Zork, which he and Bryce tinkered with when they were in school, before Bryce kicked him out that is.
"The terrible troll raises his sword" says Chuck talking to himself, "What was it I attacked him with, oh yeah, attack troll with nasty knife."
The computer suddenly started showing hundreds of pictures and Chuck stared at them transfixed and after hours of flashing pictures the screen finally went blank and Chuck finally fainted.
Groaning Chuck opened his eyes to see Morgan staring back at him, "Ahh! Morgan what are you doing in my room." Morgan, his best friend his whole life, remained his best friend after the incedent in Stanford. He still had his job at the Buy More but also had an unofficial job as a tester with Chucks company. Being the head of a computer company, Chuck also wanted to get a lot of data about how his products worked and wanted data beyond just the amount that was given by test groups. The fact that Chuck trusted Morgan compleatly helped him a lot when it came to making decisions. Morgan also was totaly loyal to Chuck and would do basicaly anything for him. That dosent mean he isent annoying sometimes though.
Morgan was so excited he seemed to barley be able to control himself, "Chuck guess what I've found, the perfect birthday present for my birthday."
Chuck groaned as he felt a headache start to form in his head, "Morgan your birthday is in a month and a half."
This however didn't faze Morgan at all, "I know but this is too good to wait look at this," he said handing the still motionless Chuck a piece of paper.
As Chuck scanned the paper he suddenly realized that his headache got a lot worse, "Morgan this is a bid on eBay for one of the original jumpsuits for Tron, 30000 dollars, Morgan that is ridiculously expensive why in the world would you need that?"
Morgan stares at him as if he is insane, "to go to ComiCon of course, you know Chuck this may be the drunkest I've seen you in a while", as a look of concern hits his face he continues, "are you ok, the last time I saw you this bad was right after Jill, you ok did something happen?"
Chuck groans as he gets up "Morgan I'm fine, in fact Ellie and I talked last night and I decided that am going to start moving on.
Morgan smiles, "That's great buddy."
"Yea I think so too in fact that I'm going to go and do the interview with the LA Times, and just to tell you I didn't actually have any drinks last night." Pausing for a second, Chuck realized that something was very strange. "Actually I don't remember anything after I got an email from Bryce Larkin."
"Oh my god Chuck what if you had a seizures?" Morgan looked at him with a ton of concern, "Wait here Chuck I'll get Ellie to make sure your ok." Morgan yelled as he left.
"Wait Morgan doesn't…" Chuck trails off as Morgan had left the room. He sighed as he listened to the sounds of a door opening, Ellie screaming, Captain Awesome yelling and Morgan apologizing. Smiling Chuck gets up thinking today may actually be a pretty good day.
After a quick shower and shave, Chuck was feeling refreshed and ready to go. Although he still had a headache after a couple of aspirins he felt better as he sat down for breakfast, his butler Michael greeted him.
"Hello sir, how are you doing today?"
"Better Michael, I think am going to do that interview in LA so just a quick breakfast."
"Yes sir and if I can say it is about time." Michael was a fairly new employey but an excelent butler who also knew a ton about the wealthy and their rules and taboos, a huge asset to Chuck who knew absolutly nothing about them.
After his breakfest, Chuck got in his car and started to think about his company, Bartowski Incorparated. The company was a specilized company that focused on the advance technologys, expecialy software and computer chips. They were small for a computer company, only employing around 150 people and dident mass produce the products rather he made custom and specilized chips. They had a huge demand and were constantly expanding, that is until the accedent.
Lost in his thoughts he barely realized he was their until the driver told him. Chuck soon realized he may have made a mistake with the restaurant he had chosen as the meeting place because it was one of the favorites that Jill and he had gone to. Suddenly Chuck realized that he had to stop this way of thinking of everything in terms of Jill, finally realizing he had to move on.
Lost in his thoughts, he was startled as someone bumped into him.
"Woops sorry bout that." Chuck just stared. The person who bumped into him was a drop dead gorgeous blond with amazing features and a perfect body.
Before his brain completely short circuited he managed to stutter, "That's all right" he managed to compose himself and continued, "In fact I should be thanking you cause your bumping into me helped put a terrible line of thinking out of my mind." He smiles and extends his hand "Chuck Bartowski."
The girl smiled, "Sarah Walker."
"Nice to meet you Sarah and what are you doing here?"
Sarah smiled, "I got regected in another interview so am trying to relax, what about you?"
"Me, oh am here for an interview"
"Really with who?"
"The LA Times" says Chuck proudly.
"Wow, you must really be important or something to get an interview with the LA Times."
"Not too important I own my own computer company, Bartowski Incorporated."
Sarah frowns for a second, "Never heard of it, what do you make, like computers of what?"
Chuck smiled, it was like he was doing the interview right now except this time he was doing the interview with a gorgeous women. "No I don't make the computers, I make the parts of the computer like the software and computer chips for the computer, what do you do."
Sarah laughed, a sound Chuck thought was one of the greatest sounds he had heard in a long time. "Well I am an aspiring model, it is pretty hard to find work though, it turns out that there are a lot of women who want to become models in LA, so am kind of out of luck right now."
"Really well I'm in the position of being able to possibly help you with that situation." Chuck said smiling.
Sarah practically jumped out of chair, "Really that would be so amazing if you could do that" suddenly she stopped and frowned at Chuck, "this isn't a porn job is it?"
Chuck basically hit himself in his head, of course that's what she would have thought, a random guy comes up to her saying he has got a modeling job, she obviously thinks there's a catch, "Oh no nothing like that, it's just that you got to remember the target audience that my company has, which is basically 90% nerdy guys, so usually there are a lot of openings for models with advertising." His speech seemed to lower her fears since she started to smile again. Chuck continued, "Why don't you give me your number and after the interview I can call you up and try and see about getting a job for you."
Once again Chuck was blown away by her smile, "Ok that sounds perfect, thank you a lot." Then she did something that surprised him, she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. Before he could think of anything to stutter back at her she walked away. Right after she left he realized that she had actually forgot to give him her card but then checking his pocket he realized that she had put her number in it when she gave him the little kiss. Chuck smiled and thinking of what Ellie had told him last night, decided she was right and should start moving on.
As she left the restaurant Sarah frowned, that had been one of the easiest first contacts she had ever made with a target, particularly considering the fact that this man was suppose to have been transferred all of the secrets in the American government. What really concerned her was the total lack of security that she had found on him. He had a driver sure but no bodyguard, not even then he looked to be some middle age limo driver that came with the car. For a multimillionaire who specialized in producing high class security programs for computers and very advance computer chips, he had to be either the most trusting man in the world or planning some kind of trap. The fact that he seemed genuinely embarrassed when she kissed him on the cheek also surprised her, and made it too easy to slip a bug in his pocket, that coupled with the fact that the card that she gave him had been slightly irradiated to make it tractable made her confident that he could be easily found, she now put her focus on finding the actual computer where the intersect had been downloaded to.
As she got in the car again she remembered last night when she heard what Bryce had done. She cried silently as she realized how Bryce, the person she thought loved her, had betrayed her and their country. She had thought that he had loved her but not only hadn't he had gone and betrayed the country and everything they had fought for. She didn't waste any time trying to think of reasons for what he did, it didn't matter why he did it, the simple fact was he had become a traitor and that's what mattered. She finally got to Chucks house and put on her mask and ninja suit on, she had to be silent because she saw security cameras around the building. Looking around she plotted the best way to infiltrate the building and put her plan into motion.
Silently she went and jumped over the fence; staying low she ran from tree to tree dodging the view of the camera until she finally came to the house. As she looked at the window, she saw that there was one guy in their according to her information it was Michael, a butler. She decided he was no threat and decided to wait for guy to leave. When he left the room, she decided it was time to act.
Using a window cutter she made a small hole in the window and then unlocked it from the inside and stealthily stepped inside. Hugging the wall she moved upstairs and quietly went to the room where the computer was located. Getting to the room she silently opened the door and unplugged the computer. Walking down the stairs she was startled by a yell, "What are you doing here", Sarah looked up to see the Michael and someone else who was short and had a beard. She set the computer down on the stair and prepared to fight the two of them.
The one with a beard acted first, throwing a book at her which she easily deflected off his face followed by a blocked bowl to the stomach. Yelling, the beard man started running to her with a golf club. Sarah easily blocked the swing, grabbed the club and knocked out the bearded guy with hit. She then turned her attention to the butler, Michael and immediately had to dodge to the left as he had pulled out a desert eagle, one of the most powerful handguns in existence. As she moved he fired 2 shots right at where she was and to her horror both hit the computer. She now realized that the mission was a complete failure and ran out of the window, dodging the bullets as she ran. As she got out of the house and back to her car she started it immediately and as she drove away she got her phone out and called Director Graham. When he
"Hello sir, there's been a problem with the mission, the butler Michael is actually military trained, he was armed with a desert eagle and fired in the way that is taught in the marines. I am sure that he was in the marines, the destroyed the computer and I barely escaped with my life."
Director Graham looked very concerned, "Are you positive about him being military, we have his full history and there is nothing on it about being in the military."
Sarah thought about it for a second before answering, "I can't be 100% sir but I have trained with the marines a lot and his whole demeanor and definitely his shooting were military, and one other thing sir, I can't be sure but I think he may have purposely fired at the computer and not just me."
Graham paused for a second thinking of this newest development, "Ok Agent Walker I'm aborting this mission, there's too many unknowns on the mission and it's too risky, if the computer is destroyed the loose end is Bartowski, and the NSA is sending in Casey to take care of that."
Sarah was shocked, Casey was a killer, a wet works specialist who had nothing against killing anyone in his way, and Sarah couldn't believe they were giving up on this mission so soon, especially with a guy that seemed like an actual nice guy. She decided that orders or no orders, she was going to try and figure this thing out before Casey came with his shoot first and ask questions later mentality.
With that in mind she got out her locating device and drove off to have a surprise meeting with Chuck again.
As Chuck left the interview he thought it went pretty good. He was able to announce the launch of his new software and point out a couple of the reviews that said it was some of the most advance and best software available outside of military tech. The interviewer was surprisingly knowledgeable with computer technology and was able to ask some very good questions.
The only part of the whole situation that seemed to be strange was that the interviewer was not the journalist who asked for the interview. When he mentioned this to the interviewer, he was told that the journalist was now covering the unveiling of the newest car, supposedly one that would revolutionize the car industry by making alternative fuel car both cheap and stylish.
When the interviewer mentioned this, Chuck had what he could only describe as a brain spasm where he saw what he thought was a sunflower and then some pictures of explosives. Shaking off the random moment Chuck thanked the interviewer and started to go to his car.
As he was leaving he got a frantic call for Morgan.
"Hey Morgan what's up? By the way the interview went great."
"Chuck thank god you answered, you'll never believe what just happened, someone tried to rob the house."
Chuck was shocked, "What, is anyone hurt, and why would they rob our house, I don't put the chips there, I leave them in the office." Chuck was really worried as he waited for Morgan to reply to his question.
"Well I have a slight concussion but nothing else, me and Michael caught the guy with your computer and he knocked me out after I attacked him but Michael had a gun and shot at him he got away but am sorry to say your computer is busted."
"Morgan do you think I care about that at all, you get to the hospital and I'll be right their ok."
"No Chuck, Ellie is here and she promised to look at me see if am ok, I've already called the police you go and celebrate, I'm fine." Chuck knew better than to argue with him, especially if Ellie had promised to look at the injury, Morgan would do anything to get Ellie to look at him, so instead he went to one of his favorite bars to celebrate.
As he started to get into his car he heard someone yell his name and as he looked over he saw the girl he had met earlier come up.
"Hey Sarah right, how are you doing" Chuck lit up, seeing a familiar face at a time he definitely needed one.
"Am ok, just got rejected for another bid, how did the interview go?"
"Ok, but I just learned that my house got robbed and my best friend got a concussion." Chuck saw something flicker on Sarah's face that looked almost like regret but it was only for a second and it immediately changed to shock.
"Oh my god is he ok?"
"Yea he will be but it's pretty scary, but I'm more interested in what happened to you, how could anyone be stupid enough to not hire you as a model, you are definitely hot enough to be one."
Sarah smiled and Chuck felt his stomach lurch again, "Thanks but that's not what the people complain about, they are more concerned with the fact am not anorexic so they say thanks but no thanks." Sarah shrugged, "that's the way the business is I guess, my only option now is to go and find a gym."
Chuck is shocked, Sarah looks perfect the way he is and he finally decides to just go for it, "A second option is to not go to the gym, accept you will never be anorexic and go out to dinner with me."
Sarah laughed, which made Chuck hopeful, "Well even if it is the last thing that the modeling agencies want, I like you Chuck so sure, one date will be fine."
Chuck was ecstatic about the answer that Sarah had given him, he was actually pretty surprised by how much he liked her, being rich it was very common for him to interact with beautiful women yet none of them had had this much of an affect since Jill, the more he thought about it the surer he was that this was the first women since Jill he actually liked. "Since its already dinnertime would you care to go right now?"
"Am I really dressed good enough for dinner in the kind of places you usually go to?" She was only wearing a pair of jeans and a simple t-shirt but to Chuck; she looked like she had was wearing the most beautiful gown ever.
"Well my usual places are like Applebee's or Chilies, am not that fancy of a guy, and am not that big of a fan of the fancy restaurants, so what do you say, yes?"
"Ok Chuck lets do it" The two of them choose the closes restraint that either of them had heard about, which turned out to be a local Italian restaurant.
As they got to their seats, Chuck smiled at Sarah and she smiled back, and for the first time in 6th months, Chucks thoughts of Jill were completely out of his head.
Chuck thought that the dinner went great. Sarah was a great listener and had some great stories of her own too. In fact she was just finishing up a story about this one modeling agencies obsession with perfection when she suddenly stopped and gave a weird look and said, "Excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom, be back soon." She said as she hurried off.
Chuck nodded and asked the waitress for the check while waiting for her to return. Then suddenly he heard one of the people at a nearby table talking about the car show. "Yeah I heard that the head of Ford and Senator Swayze were both going to be there, also Sheik al-Shawali…" When Chuck heard this he had another one of the head spasms, which reminded him of a camera flash. This time he saw a building and then a rap sheet of an Middle Eastern guy followed by a picture of oil rig and an explosion. Chuck head was still spinning when Sarah came back.
Sarah was also enjoying the dinner a lot. She had come here expecting to have a tense meeting with her using all the skills she had learned to extract basic information. Instead what she got was the opposite, Chuck was a nice, funny and honest man who gave away information that most spies would need to be tortured for days to give up. She almost immediately revised her assessment of him and realized he was not a spy and that he knew nothing of spying.
She was actually having fun when she noticed the man in the suit enter the restaurant. She immediately recognized him as an NSA and realized they were coming to clean the mission.
She quickly said excuse me o Chuck and went to the back, near where the man she saw come in was. While moving when she saw two more agents converge on her location.
When out of sight from Chuck and the other restraint patrons, she moved. She gave the first guy a punch to the stomach that doubled him over followed by a quick knee to the face. The other two moved into action, with one lunging at her and the other reaching for a gun.
Sarah sidestepped the lunging man and reached the gun, where a push on a pressure point. This was followed by a twist that broke his wrist and elbowed him in the face. The third man started to attack by now and Sarah spends a frantic moment blocking and dodging his punches.
He finally overextended himself and she exploited it, knocking him out with a 1, 2 punch.
With it finally over, Sarah realized she was out of time and had to get Chuck out of their now.
When Sarah came back, Chuck was very surprised by the look on her face. She was dead serious with a kind of intensity he had never seen before.
"Sarah what's hap-" before he could finish Sarah grabbed his hand and pushed him out the door.
"Chuck give me the keys" Sarah yelled in a commanding voice, and the scared and confused Chuck numbly gave her the keys. She ran to the car and immediately put the pedal down and sped away. While she did this Chuck stared blankly at the front window and prayed that the seatbelt was strong and wondered what was going on.
Just as he was about to ask, a giant jeep hurled toward them and Sarah barley managed to avoid it by sharply turning into oncoming traffic. After a few frantic seconds of driving in which Chuck was screaming for his life finally ended when Sarah managed to get in the right lane and managed to regain control. Chuck finally had enough.
"What the hell is going on" Chuck screams and Sarah tenses up again, before finally deciding he deserved an answer.
"As you probably realized, I'm not actually an aspiring model" Chuck nodded, "Well I'm actually a CIA agent."
"Why is the CIA after me, what did I do?" Chuck asked understandably confused.
"It's because of Bryce Larkin."
"Bryce Larkin from Connecticut is a spy?" Chuck was amazed, that was the last thing he expected.
"A rouge spy, he stole a ton of government secrets and sent them to you, did he contact you recently?" Sarah asked.
"Well yeah but it was just some really bad pictures" Chuck said, not understanding what the big deal was.
"You looked at them" Sarah was shocked and a bit concerned. If he saw the pictures he could have all of the American government's secrets in his head.
Just then she looked out the window and was the jeep come heading right towards them. The little Toyota Avalon they were driving got hit full force and was totaled while the jeep slowed down and a man got out. Fully expecting Casey to come out and finish the job she was shocked when Michael, the butler stepped out of the car with an assault rifle. By the look on his face, Chuck was just as shocked.
"Give me Chuck and I'll let you live." Michael moved closer and Sarah readied her gun. Michael continued to talk, "I was just here to steal the computer technology but when I was you when you read about the car show and our plan with the new car."
When Michael said that Chuck immediately had another of what he decided to call a flash, he saw a bomb placed in the engine of the new car and a giant explosion. Chuck was now shocked since he knew what it meant and yelled at Michael.
"You're planning on bombing the car show, destroying the car and making it seem like an accident to stop the growth of alternative fuel cars" Chuck was shocked, this man was willing to kill hundreds of people for what, some money.
Michael was smiling, "Well this thing is even more interesting than I imagined. It's in your head; imagine the amount of money you'll fetch on the market." He paused for a second before continuing, "On second thought, I think I'll give you to my superiors, they will definitely appreciate the gift."
He walks up to Sarah and is about to aim the gun at her head when a shot rings out and Michael falls down. Turning around, Sarah sees John Casey walking up with his team. He kicks the gun away from the dead man and turns his gun on Chuck.
"Wait Casey, don't shoot him, he has the whole Intersect in his head."
Casey grunted, "I heard that guy talk Sarah, and I'm not stupid." With that he shot the seatbelt that was holding Chuck in the car. Pointing at one of the other agents he said, "You, hold this moron here, the rest of you follow me we got to get to the show and stop that bomb." Sarah agreed with Casey on this one, there was no way they could risk the Intersect by putting him in the same area as the bomb.
Chuck on the other hand had different ideas, "Wait let me go, and none of you have any idea where the bomb is beside me, I'm the only one who can stop it." Casey and Sarah just stared at him both knowing he was right but neither wanting to acknowledge it. Then with a simple shrug Casey and Sarah agreed to bring Chuck.
"Ok let's go Chuck, but stay in the car when we get there." Sarah told Chuck in the most commanding voice she could. Chuck nodded, happy to be able to go with her.
The three of them got in Casey's car and speed to the show. When they got their both Casey and Sarah wanted Chuck to stay in the car, but since neither of them knew where the car was or what to do to disarm the bomb they had to take him along.
When they got to the room the place was packed, since this was the main attraction the room was packed. Using their ids they managed to get to the front of the room and got the hood off. Inside the car was at least 300 pounds of C4. The room exploded, with everyone trying to move as far away from the explosives as possible while the security guards tried to keep order.
The three of them tried to ignore the pandemonium around them and keep focused on stopping the bomb. The C4 was all attached to a computer that had a timer that was counting down from 2 and a half minutes.
Casey and Sarah started a gigantic argument about the best way to defuse the bomb and how to save the people, Chuck on the other hand focused on the computer itself. He looked at it and realized that it was one of the computers that had his software, suddenly he knew what to do.
As Chuck is reaching for the computer Casey grabs his hand, "And what do you think your doing."
"Look this computer may have my software, it is one of the types that support it, if it does have it, I know for sure I can stop it."
"Look Casey this is our best chance, and he does own a company that deals with computers," Sarah explains, she has decided to trust Chuck, if she made the wrong choice it's not really like she would have time to regret the decision.
"Ok fine" Casey backs up and then addressing Chuck, "Just don't screw up ok, I like my life."
Chuck looks at the computer and gets the hard drive open. Sure enough one of his computer chips has been used in the computer. With 20 seconds left he types in a control code that is to shut down the mainframe in case of a virus. The computer than has a message which says no viruses detected and Chuck types in the master security code put in all of his chips. The code tells the computer to shut down immediately and it does just that, with only 1.2 seconds left.
When the computer finally stops Chuck collapses from stress and while Casey gives of no emotion, Sarah comes over and with a very nice smile says, "Great job Chuck"
He is too weary to even think of anything to say and just then all of the excitement and shocks from the day finally show and he collapses to the ground exhausted.
When Chuck woke up he woke to yelling. When he get up, he sees Casey and Sarah yelling at each other's face.
"He's coming with me." Casey yells at Sarah.
"No, you saw what if it's not a fluke, he could be helpful." Sarah counters.
"It's too dangerous, there's too many variable, his friends, family, it would be better if he was safe in a little cell."
Chuck listens to this shocked. They are saying its best to stick him in an underground bunker for the rest of his life; this is something he will never left happen. "No way, there is no way that I'm going to some stupid hole for the rest of my life."
Sarah and Casey stared at each other before Sarah finally decides to answer, "Chuck, it is not really like that. This is for your safety, you are possibly the most important man in America, and we got to think of your protection before anything." Sarah hoped that this argument would convene him but as she thought, he ignored it.
"No way, I don't care about that I care about my family and my friends, in fact, if what you say is true and I am that important then you can't really do anything without me, and I say am staying here, ok." Sarah knew what that Chuck meant, and also knew that what he said was true.
"Ok Chuck, we will have to discuss this but for now go home, well watch you and keep you safe while trying to figure out what to do." Casey nodded, surrendering to the idea.
"OK since were agreed on that, we have to go to the debriefing with General Beckman and Director Graham, let's go Moron", said Casey as he started to drag Chuck to the car and back to the temporary base.
When they got their they got the General and Director on the line after explaining what happened and what Chuck had told them, they had to stay there for another couple minutes while the two agency leaders decided what to.
Chuck was very concerned with what the two of them would decide, this was his life. If they decided to put him in the bunker, there would be nothing that he could do to stop them.
Sarah sensed that Chuck was on the verge of an emotional breakdown and went over to him. She squeezed his shoulder and said, "don't worry about it Chuck, they're not going to lock you up ok." Chuck nodded but still seemed pretty worried, she was about to say something else when the general started to talk.
"We've decided that we'll allow you to stay here for now." As she was saying this Beckman had to try to keep her face composed and it was obvious to everyone there that she didn't agree with the decision. Chuck was so relieved with the answer that he gave a hug to Sarah.
After a couple awkward seconds they both pulled apart and looked away nervously. While on the outside she maintained an awkward look, she was actually happy about the hug.
General Beckman continued with the debriefing, "While we will allow you to keep your current life we will need some extra security measures. The fact is that your Butler, Michael has turned out to be a rogue NSA agent." At that Casey leaned forward and seemed to be shocked. "The thing that we have decided is to increase the security; we have decided that you will hire a full time security team to be headed by the former NSA major John Casey."
At this statement both Casey and Sarah were shocked, Casey was amazed, "So you want me to go into a mission with no alias, go in with my real history." Casey was really shocked and had never heard of this kind of thing happening before. He had never been in a mission without a cover and was worried about it. Beckman and Graham were both positive this was the best thing to do.
"Your life is a perfect cover for a high class security guard. Privet body guard is a common job for ex-military. No one will think it surprising that a multi-millionaire in a high tech field that just had an attempted robbery from an employee has decided to get a couple body guards."
Although he was unsure of what they were going to do, Casey decided that the arguments of the commanders were sound and decided to do it, he knew the importance of Chuck and felt it was a necessary risk. "Very well General, I'll do it, but if I could can I request my team."
"Of course Major, we plan on having a 4 person team; you can get the final details and persons latter."
"What about me general" Sarah asks. For some reason she is very nervous about this cover, usually it doesn't matter, it's usually simply a job but for this one she is worried.
Director Graham answers, "This is a very hard choice and we want Chuck to make it. We know of the situation with Jill, and we are not sure about how you want this to go Chuck. We don't know if your family will buy you getting over the death of Jill and have a new girlfriend."
Chuck answers, "Wait am confused what does the fact that I don't have a girlfriend have to do with anything?" When Chuck looks at Sarah he sees she is obviously trying to hold something in, which confuses him more.
Graham answers, "The cover we were thinking of supplying you with was to have Sarah as your girlfriend" Chuck stares at Sarah with obvious embarrassment as both Sarah and Casey smile. "However, if you don't think that you could convince people Sarah is your girlfriend then we will have to revise the cover and make her your secretary this is however a less attractive option due to the limited amount of time she could spend with you. In the end it is your decision and we will abide by it, so what do you choose?"
Sarah was very surprised by this, usually the cover was decided and the asset had no choice in the matter. It showed just how important he was if he was being able to choose his cover.
Chuck for his part knew of the importance of this, it would have repercussions for the rest of his life, and although he knew which cover he wanted, he couldn't say it without letting Sarah have her choice. "Sarah which cover would you want?"
"Chuck this isn't my choice, it's yours."
"Sarah your wrong there, this isn't just me, this is also going to be your life, so what do you say, do you think, can you be my girlfriend?"
Sarah smiled, even if it was just a cover, the fact he had asked her what she wanted was amazing, and although a small thing for most people to her it was a huge thing. Many of the people she protected had thought of her as nothing more that background, not a person.
The fact he actually asked her what her opinion was made the answer easier, "If you want, I will be your girlfriend, but the choice is still up to you."
Chuck smiled and Sarah smiled back, looking back at the General he said, "Well general, I think I just got a new girlfriend."
With the covers finally decided, Chuck could finally go home. When he got their his family and friends were waiting for him. He knew that these people were there for him and would always be there for him. He was upset at first when he heard he couldn't tell them anything, but then Sarah came over and explained it all to him, and she convinced him that this was the best was to keep them safe so he agreed. As he walked into the room, he braced for the explosion.
Ellie came first, "What the hell happened, I was so worried, I heard something about gunshots and Michael being killed," She finished with her rambling, and then asked the only question she really cared about, "Chuck are you ok? "He smiled and hugged Ellie, then Morgan and even Captain Awesome.
Chuck decided this was as good of a time to tell them and started to tell them his first cover story, "Guys this is what I've heard, Michael was actually a robber who was trying to get the chips", Chuck explained as Ellie gasped, "He and his partner were going to rob my computer but when they saw Morgan they had to improvise so they shot the computer and ran away. Michael later tried to kidnap me to get the info when I was in the city."
Morgan interrupted him, "how did you get away?"
Chuck smiled, "what Michael didn't know was I had hired a bodyguard after the robbery, it was going to be temporary but when I nearly got kidnapped, I think am making it permanent." When he said that Ellie looked extremely happy, she had been telling him to get protection for a while.
Morgan however, was a little less happy. "Chuck, I could have been your bodyguard, why not me."
"Morgan, were you a former marine and then NSA agent?"
"No"
"Well John was"
With that Morgan shut up, while both Ellie and Captain were both very impressed. Ellie however saw a hole in the story, "Wait Chuck, why were you in the city?"
After thinking about it for a couple minutes he decided he should tell her. "Well, I was actually on a date." When Ellie heard this she gave a happy yell and ran over to hug him. At the same time Morgan told him congratulation while Devon said Awesome.
"You cannot throw that at me and just move on, who is she and what is she like." Ellie was so excited that she was acting like a ten year old, but Chuck really couldn't blame her, he hadn't been on a date in six months so she would obviously be interested.
In the monitoring station, Sarah also was interested, wanting to see how her new boyfriend described her. Chuck had also figured that Sarah was listening so he took a couple minutes figuring out the perfect thing to say. He finally thinks he has it and answers. "Her name is Sarah Walker and she is an aspiring model," At that Morgan snorted and Chuck gave him an angry glare. "So continuing, I meet her right before the interview and we hit it off, so we decided to go out to dinner after I was done."
Ellie interrupted, "Chuck that's all nice but the one thing that I want to know is, do you like her?"
Sarah leaned in as Chuck answered, "Yes I do"
Ellie gave another of her giant smiles, "That is all I need to know for now, am really happy for you, when are you seeing her again."
"A couple days I think, am not sure."
"That's great; I really hope you two work out."
"Ok sis, it's been a long day, I think am going to bed"
"Ok see ya Chuck." Ellie said while walking back to the rooms where she and Devon lived. Since the house had over 5 bedrooms, Chuck had no problem with allowing Ellie and Devon live with him while they liked it since it was very close to the hospital where they work.
As they walked away Chuck remembered to tell them something else, "Oh Ellie I nearly forgot, my new bodyguard is coming tomorrow so don't be surprised if a team will come to do renovations or something."
"Ok Chuck I'll remember."
As Chuck goes asleep in his room, he starts to dream and just as Sarah is putting up the listening mike, she hears the sleeping Chuck whisper her name. After listening for a few more minutes she takes of the receiver, with a smile shining on her face.
